From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: steffen@sdaoden.eu (Steffen Nurpmeso) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:05:28 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] X, Suntools, and the like In-Reply-To: References: <4227EA32-12C2-46D1-B683-88812D1E5168@tfeb.org> <3B3776C9-1B22-4143-A4F5-0BEA13C79505@tfeb.org> <20170315164006.GC26286@wopr> <20170316230455.GA21805@naleco.com> <44029610-41EA-404A-AF14-F02A6EAC6143@orthanc.ca> <1BF96B93-740B-4CE5-8B66-CB5B4504B8AD@tfeb.org> <20170317201742.GB21805@naleco.com> <001201d29f5d$5e23dff0$1a6b9fd0$@ronnatalie.com> <836C637F-A0B1-442D-996A-78D538E332B1@orthanc.ca> <7951FBB1-CCF2-4EA6-85DC-3A1D707B5D85@orthanc.ca> <9BA2B037-C736-4545-B57B-242C9779F992@orthanc.ca> <20170318154511.o8KWC%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Message-ID: <20170318230528.hiqJq%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Andy Kosela wrote: |On Saturday, March 18, 2017, Steffen Nurpmeso <[1]steffen at sdaoden.eu[/1]> \ |wrote: |Lyndon Nerenberg <[2]lyndon at orthanc.ca[/2]> wrote: | |> On Mar 17, 2017, at 3:58 PM, Dan Cross <[3]crossd at gmail.com[/3]> wrote: | |Doh!  It just strikes me that the term I have been missing is "window \ | |manager."  Early Macs, Windows, Oberon, etc., were window managers. | | [1] mailto:steffen at sdaoden.eu | [2] javascript:; | [3] javascript:; | |Not to forget GEOS on Commodore 64, years before Windows. | |Actually it was not "years before Windows".  Windows 1.0 was released in | |1985, while GEOS for Commodore 64 in 1986.  If we are talking about early That is Wikipedia, but i bet i was not more than a quarter of a year. In fact i am a bit surprised, my parents divorced when i was fourteen, and i really can remember myself using GEOS proper. And then, this was all in 8-bit, 64 KB, 1 MHz! However they did that! With paint program, write program.. |"window managers" I think it is desirable to also mention early text mode | |window managers like PathMinder which was released before Windows, in | |1984. Ya, hm, i surely was a books rat at that time. --steffen